It's About Data

It's About Data

By Matthew Housley and Tony BaerTechnology
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It's About Data episodes

  • Do We Still Need Data Teams? (with Ollie Hughes)

    Ollie Hughes (CEO of Count.co) joins Tony and Matt for episode 20. How can #data teams rise above the noise? How will data roles evolve when basic technical tasks are automated?


    YouTube link:

    https://youtu.be/1Rm7jySLkog


    Check out Count:

    count.co

    #dataanalytics #artificialintelligence

    22 min
  • Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents (with Jessica Talisman)

    Jessica Talisman joins Tony and Matt to discuss the current limitations of AI systems, and finding solutions in knowledge infrastructure and knowledge engineering.

    Learn more about Jessica's work:

    https://ontologypipeline.com/

    https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmtalisman/

    #artificialintelligence #knowledgegraphs #ontology

    29 min
  • 4.2 Trillion

    Nvidia just hit a record market capitalization of $4.2 trillion. We interrupt our summer lull to give our hot take

    #nvidia #generativeai #deeplearning

    17 min
  • Oracle Database@AWS

    We're joined by guests Mehul Shah and Kambiz Aghili to discuss Oracle Database@AWS. What do broadening multi-cloud partnerships mean for customers and cloud architects?#amazonwebservices #oracle #cloudcomputing #dataengineering

    23 min
  • Major Themes of 2025 H1

    Tony and Matt follow up the previous episode's review of first half announcements with a discussion of major themes for the year to date. Acquisitions, rebundling the modern data stack, data products, interop and the future of engineers in an #artificialintelligence driven industry.

    27 min
  • Data News Recap — H1 2025

    Tony and Matt review vendor news from the first half of 2025. In short: agents, agents, agents.#aiagents #enterpriseai #cloudcomputing #datawarehousing

    19 min
  • Data + AI Summit 2025

    Matt and Tony discuss the 2025 edition of  @Databricks' annual shindig in San Francisco.

    #postgres #iceberg @snowflakeinc #airealism

    Articles mentioned in the episode:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/when-ai-automation-replacing-humans-databricks-ceo-ali-ghodsi-2025-6

    https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2025/05/06/ai-bubble-burst-databricks-ceo-gic-bridge-forum.html

    20 min
  • DuckLake (with Ryan Boyd)

    Ryan joins Tony and Matt to discuss the recent release of DuckLake, a combined table format and data catalog released by the DuckDB foundation.#datawarehouse #dataanalytics #iceberg #duckdb #podcast

    23 min
  • Snowflake Summit 2025

    Tony and Matt discuss this year's Snowflake Summit. Agents, Iceberg, Postgres and Snowflake's ongoing battle with old rival Databricks.#snowflake #aiagents #iceberg #postgres #podcast

    19 min

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